San Quentin · Nickelback

108 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-21, 23-28 and 31-36, and 7 more places -- 64.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 124 BPM
SAN QUENTIN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 70, 90 and 6 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 90-91 · LANDS ON BAR 92 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 98-99 · LANDS ON BAR 100 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 7 sections: 67 keep time, 12 are fills, 23 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-89.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCKHS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is San Quentin?

124 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is San Quentin hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in San Quentin?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 70, 90 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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